What stands out to me is all the talking heads repeating the mantra, "Does this make any sense? It just doesn't make any sense!" They sound like the kids from Southpark.

When I was Distributing the film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, People used to stop and watch the film for a few moments and say the same thing, "That doesn't make any sense, why'd they do that...? Two types of people would ask that. Those who bought a copy of the film, and those who turned and walked away with a look of horror their faces.

For those liberal, open-minded, government-is-daddy types, here is a clue.

Back up to change your perspective. Consider that you MIGHT HAVE been lied to about the true objective of the operation. Consider that the people who put this operation together, and supervised it, didn't have benevolent intentions at all.

Then ask again, of Mike and David, what was the true objective of this operation.

@Ashrak, "It's never been done before" is in the first video, check again at 2:15ish.As for what's in the second but not in the first... everything?All of the additional conversation that lends credence to what the sheriff is saying. Without the additional info, it looks like the sheriff is trying to stir something up on his own. With the additional info, it looks like the sheriff is simply stating the effects caused by the earlier info provided.

Jeez, you'd think they'd have longer video available online than they played on air. Must be a storage capacity issue :/

Sheriff Babeu needs to get as much press and visibility as possible - he's well-spoken, educated, mild-mannered, good-looking, and the perfect spokesman for explaining the evils of this blatant DOJ crime.

I'd sure like to know WHO is corporate responsible at these MSM headquarters, for authorizing WHAT and WHEN they "broadcast" or release these types of "news reports". I'd like to see a list. At least then, you could contact the ones that REALLY control the MSM..one way or another..ie..words or pitchforks.

Very interesting to compare the two. The first is the cleaned up information and the second is the truth. Wonder when and how the Obama admin. got control of CNN. I would like for someone to explain in the media when they say 200 Mexicans have been killed, I think that is where they were able to see the bodies and the trace the guns because the cartel was killed or captured. What about when the cartel drives into a small town, shoots everyone in sight and moves on to the next town? How many of those guns are F&F guns? How would anyone know?

Short video edits recounting of Sheriff Deputies being outnumbered/outgunned at US crime scenes. The Mexican Insurgency is here.

F&F was a pretty-near-complete success. Only the cover-up was botched.

Guns to Cartels, Cocaine to Phoenix, cash to fill re-election pockets, and no one (we like) gets hurt.

"hundreds of Mexicans" includes only those who are indisputably innocent victims documented to have been killed by captured US-sourced weapons. Like US unemployment numbers, the rules for counting exclude most of what normal honest people would include.

The actual number of Mexicans killed by the on-going insurgency is 10's of thousands PER YEAR. Villages are emptied, economies collapsed. This is open-source war, Robb-style. The cartels will eventually get themselves a Failed State that cannot resist it, thus gain legitimacy as Hamas has. A little education (propaganda & Cartel soldier training) for elementary students and some food aid, along with control of random violence in the street (all violence and crime will be carefully controlled) is the cheapest thing to buy votes.

The puzzling thing about the 2nd video; the beginning portion bends over backwards to allege TWO guns, not three --the aim is to protect the legal standing of their informant, since he was present at the time of the killing of the BP agent. Much later in the 2nd video, they blunder and state the truth (somewhat less extravangtly) that there were indeed THREE guns.

Ballistics tests of the three guns ruled out the first two admitted guns as the murder weapon.

It is POSSIBLE that an FBI informant killed a BP agent, or at least that the weapon of that informant was used in that murder.

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Everyone should grow up with simulated equipment from a heavy weapons platoon. It gives you a more well rounded education and an appreciation for the finer things in life. -- Sergeant Matthew Vanderboegh, United States Army.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.